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Definition of Half door
1. Noun. An exterior door divided in two horizontally; either half can be closed or open independently.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Half Door
Literary usage of Half door
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Before the High Court and Circuit Courts of Justiciary in by Scotland High Court of Justiciary, Archibald Swinton (1838)
"I observed a considerable blackening on the lower part of the door inside, on
the western half, extending nearly the whole breadth of the half-door, ..."
2. Bruno's Weekly by Guido Bruno (1915)
"Then there was the old slaughter-house "on the southwest corner of Bank and Hudson
Streets, where the boys used to look over the old-fashioned half door and ..."
3. Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of (1875)
"A half-door." " HATCH" is used about Ashburton and Torquay. ... A wicket, or
half-door. The various local names of Hutch—such as . ..."
4. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens (1908)
"The autocratic landlady withdrew into the house with Riah and Miss Jenny, and
disposed those forces, one oil either side of her, within the half-door of the ..."
5. Building Construction and Superintendence by Frank Eugene Kidder (1915)
"Any number of doors may be placed in the opening commencing with a half- door
hinged to the jamb at either side of the opening. This half- door must be ..."
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